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Originally Posted by fjtorres
They had all the pieces (but one) to be boss, including a big head start on Amazon, and threw it all away. Instead of improving their ebookstore, they killed their walled garden and had to start over from scratch, wasting over a year at a time Kindle was figuring out what worked and what didn't and surging ahead.
They never caught up after that.
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Sony didn't have to start over from scratch. They just had to do things different to merge ePub in with LRX in the eBookstore. Sony could have been King and Amazon second fiddle. Sony's eBookstore wasn't that bad overall. But it could have been better. There's a lot Sony could have done and they would have still been good to go. As it is they are not good to go and they've gone.